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Everton fans react to Wayne Rooney comments

Wayne Rooney angered Everton fans with a poor performance on Thursday - and had an even poorer one in the mixed zone afterwards.

Everton stooped to a new low this season on Thursday night.

The Toffees, led by caretaker boss David Unsworth, were thrashed 5-1 by Atalanta at Goodison Park in a Europa League game which compounded Everton's worries.

The Premier League side sacked Ronald Koeman a month ago and it appears more serious than ever that owner Farhad Moshiri and his colleagues appoint somebody as soon as possible.

Everton have now lost four from six in all competitions since Koeman's axing, shipping 14 goals in the process, but Wayne Rooney puzzled the club's fanbase - and perhaps even neutral supporters - after Thursday's demolition by claiming that Unsworth's temporary appointment has been a "positive".

As a result, fans of the Goodison Park club reacted to the claim on Twitter with surprise.

Everton have a hat-trick of winnable games on the horizon - away to Southampton on Sunday and then home to West Ham and Huddersfield - and you get the feeling that victory in at least two of them is possible if the club's owners can appoint somebody in the very near future.

Shane Callaghan

Shane is a Dublin-based sports writer who swapped the football pitch for the press box upon learning that he was better with a pen than with a round bit of leather. Prior to joining HITC, Shane enjoyed spells with Sports Mole and Goal.com among others, while he was also club reporter for Irish football club Drogheda United.